A Death Eater’s Evening

Gibbon left his drink on the table and shot towards his study. The burning in his freshly marked arm meant that he was summoned. He opened the secret compartment and took out his garb.

Without wasting time, he donned the black hood and his mask. He then double checked if he took his emergency portkey. Once he was ready, he placed his wand on his dark mark and looked at it fondly. He was inducted into the inner circle because he successfully led the raid in the West and also was the one leading the attacks on the muggles. And since only the inner circle were marked, it gave him a lot of respect within the organization.

He focused on the mark and apparated. Immediately he found himself in a chamber with the Dark Lord and Bellatrix, who was already on her knees. He immediately went on his knees and faced his lord. Lord Voldemort was pacing back and forth, looking at both of them.

"Rise, Gibbon, Bellatrix."

"My Lord."

"I have another task for you."

"I am ready for anything, my Lord."

"As you already know, we are going to take care of Bones and Vance. What I didn't tell anyone was that we are going to hit both targets at the same time," he paused for a moment and then looked at them again, "Bellatrix will lead a team against Bones. And you, Gibbon, will lead a team against Vance."

Gibbon knew that he was getting all these recent opportunities because most of the inner circle were now locked up in Azkaban due to the embarrassing event in the Ministry. He had to do his best to up his standing when he got the chance.

"Make no mistake Bellatrix, I am still unhappy with what happened at the ministry. But the majority of the blame lies with Lucius, for that disappointing performance. Him, I will deal with later. Do not disappoint me again Bellatrix."

"Yes, my Lord," she simpered.

"Gibbon, I am pleased with your performance so far. Keep it up and your rewards will be manifold."

"I am just doing my duty, my Lord."

He nodded and then pointed towards the door behind him.

"The others are waiting there. Pick who you want for your team and go ahead. I will be taking care of another issue, so don't expect me to come and clean up your mess again," he said and then dismissed them.

A couple of hours later, Gibbon was outside a muggle neighborhood with his team. Apparently the muggle Prime Minister lived nearby. He was sorely tempted to go over and kill that filth too, but his Lord's task took priority first. Moreover, according to Yaxley, the ministry had some people guarding the muggle.

"I hope Snape's information is correct," growled Greyback.

"The Dark Lord trusts him, it is not our place to question that," replied Gibbon and motioned his team to position themselves.

Once they were all ready, Gibbon gave the signal and they started bombarding the protections. Due to the information they had on hand, they knew which protections were active and how to effectively take them now. According to Snape, the protections would have alerted the entire order by now. But Gibbon was confident that they would finish the mission by then.

Within a minute, the protections got blown away and Gibbon led his squad inside. A few muggles had come outside to see what the commotion was, but they all were summarily executed.

"Less work for the obliviators," smirked Gibbon. Although, the corpses left behind by Greyback would raise a lot of questions if the obliviators didn't get there in time. Once they took over the ministry, they must be careful with this beast roaming in human skin, mused Gibbon. After all, it would not do to break the Statute of Security unless they were fully prepared. And Greyback killed in such a way that even the possibility of animal attacks would be ruled out.

"Hurry before Dumbledore and his minions get here," Gibbon shouted out and the Death Eaters started laying down the anti-apparation and anti-portkey jinxes. Once they were done, they uniformly walked into the house through different entry points.

Apparently Emmeline Vance wouldn't go down without a fight. For the moment they entered, they activated the traps she had set and were thrown out of the house with great force. Although the magical attack didn't affect Greyback and his werewolf buddies much. Gibbon signaled Greyback to lead the charge while he went around to flank her.

Gibbon peered through a window and saw that Vance was hiding behind a transfigured cover and activating various traps against the Death Eaters. Too bad she was focused completely on the ones coming from front.

Careful not to actually touch anything, Gibbon shot an unlocking charm towards the window and immediately followed with a killing curse. To his dismay, the window did not open, but the killing curse obliterated the entire wall. Vance shielded herself from the hail of shrapnel.

Greyback grinned viciously and sprang at her while she was distracted by Gibbon. He slashed at her throat, but she deftly jumped backwards and shot a redactor straight at his chest. As a result, Greyback was thrown through a wall. The other death eaters had not wasted the chance and had thrown a rain of killing curses. Vance turned towards it and attempted to conjure a brick wall. But the sheer number of curses tore through the bricks and struck Vance.

As she fell, Gibbon, still standing outside, pointed his wand at the sky and shouted, "Morsmordre!"

The Death Eaters began piling out of the huge hole in the wall as the Dark Mark shone bright in the night sky. One of them was levitating the unconscious Greyback in front of him. All of a sudden, a few cracks could be heard as the members of the Order of the Phoenix appeared right outside the boundary of the anti-teleportation jinxes.

Not wasting any time, Gibbon deactivated the anti-transportation jinxes and activated his portkey, signaling his team to follow. The order members shouted in frustration as the Death Eaters disappeared in front of them.

Gibbon arrived at the headquarters and swiftly started counting the members of his team. To his horror, three were missing. What happened? He asked.

"Fucking Mad Eye and his pink haired bitch is what happened. They got em before they could activate the portkeys," replied a werewolf as he hoisted the limp figure of Greyback and moved towards the infirmary.

"Fuck. No sign of Dumbledore then?"

The others just nodded and moved towards the bar. Gibbon removed his mask and swiftly walked towards the war room. He had a report to give. From what Snape had said, the old coot had got himself injured in the duel against the Dark Lord. And frankly, despite how strong Dumbledore was, he did not scare Gibbon as much as Mad Eye Moody did.

With Dumbledore, you would be just incarcerated. Mad Eye on the other hand would not hesitate to kill you or torture you. Gibbon shuddered at the thought of what would most likely happen to his men and started massaging his forehead.

All this thoughts came to a screeching halt as a bleeding Bellatrix appeared in the portkey area. She immediately collapsed without a word. Gibbon walked towards her and could see that there was a deep cut in her abdomen and a cut in her thigh which were bleeding profusely. Her arm was slashed and there were multiple marks in her body which looked like bee stings. He could not fathom how she could be injured like that. Bellatrix was one of the most fearsome members of their group. The enemies did not have anyone except Dumbledore or Mad Eye, who could have injured her like this. It must have mostly been a trap set by the Bones woman.

Gibbon knew that the Dark Lord was still on his self-imposed mission, so he had to take care of this issue now.

He just hoped that she had succeeded in her task and eliminated the target. Gibbon motioned a few new recruits to immediately take her to the infirmary, as he waited for her team to return and give him a report of what happened.

Meanwhile, in the infirmary, the Death Eaters were agitated with the two cuts in her body which would not stop bleeding despite all their best efforts. The one in the abdomen was particularly vicious. Alas, the night would not end well in Bellatrix's favor as the events of her mission came to light.